Plantas medicinais na cultura mbyá guarani: uma revisão bibliográfica nos trabalhos de conclusão de curso

Abstract

Medicinal plants have been used by indigenous populations for several years to prevent and cure diseases, mainly in the Mbyá Guarani culture. The research aimed to investigate the knowledge about medicinal plants in other Guarani villages through the analysis of course conclusion works from two public universities. We sought to identify course conclusion works on the Guarani culture and medicinal plants, analyze the selected works by raising what has been researched on the subject and from which approach, as well as relating the theme of medicinal plants in the Guarani culture with science teaching in village schools. The research has a qualitative approach and it is a bibliographic work. Course completion papers on the subject were selected from the UFSC and UFRGS repositories. As a result, a small number of academic works that dialogue with the topic in Guarani reality stood out. Both works analyzed defend the valorization of ancestral knowledge in Guarani indigenous schools, based on the involvement of the community, especially the pajés and the “vós” in school actions. We reinforce the necessary dialogue between this ancestral knowledge and the Science content addressed at school, respecting the way of relating to plants typical of the Guarani culture, that is, physically, mentally and spiritually.